On select Thursdays, Shillington teachers share quick lessons on design legends. Think of it as Design History 101 meets the hashtag era. Here are some of our favourite lessons!
Paula Scher (b. 1948) Paula Scher is a living legend of American graphic design. She's famous for a wide variety of...
Max Bill (1908-1994) Max Bill is widely considered to be one of the most influential Swiss Designers. Excelling in numerous...
El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941) Russian born El Lissitzky was another one of those crazy-arsed creatives in the early parts of the...
Carolyn Davidson Carolyn Davidson is a graphic designer best known for designing the Nike logo. We all know the...
Herb Lubalin (1918-1981) Herb Lubalin was an American designer, best known for his extraordinary typography and art direction....
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) Kurt Schwitters was a German artist best known for his involvement in the Dada art movement. He...
Massimo Vignelli (1931-2014) Massimo Vignelli was a designer, teacher, writer and lecturer who worked within the Modernist...
Ruth Ansel (b. late 1930s) Ruth Ansel is a designer, art director and lecturer. She was one of the first women to break into...
László Moholy-Nagy (1895 - 1946) László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter, photographer and professor. But I bet...
Steve Jobs of Apple (1955-2011) In 1984, the launch of the first Apple Macintosh shocked the world. Suddenly there was a new...
Margaret Calvert (b. 1936) Margaret Calvert is a Southern-African born, British graphic designer famous for transforming...
Wolfgang Weingart (b. 1941) Wolfgang Weingart is a graphic designer and typographer. He is commonly credited as the father of...
Saul Bass (1920-1996) Saul Bass was an American graphic designer best known for his design of motion picture title sequences,...
Introducing ... Throwback Thursday! In a new Shillington Design Blog series, each week we will feature a design legend that...
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